package main import ( "fmt" "strconv" ) // slugMap contains a sequence of valid characters for slug generation const slugMap = "AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz0123456789" // generateSlug takes an integer and generates a string based on slugMap func generateSlug(seed int64) string { stringSeed := fmt.Sprintf("%d", seed) evenLength := (len(stringSeed) / 2) * 2 digitHold := int64(0) out := "" for i := 0; i < evenLength; i += 2 { digitHold, _ = strconv.ParseInt(stringSeed[i:i+2], 10, 8) digitHold = digitHold % int64(len(slugMap)) out += slugMap[digitHold : digitHold+1] } return out }